Marzieh Hamidi, the refugee who dreams of taking part in the Games
Published: Jul 06, 2023
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foreign okay um [Music] foreign yes what I go okay I wrote Kitty placement of it is okay okay stop and uh but he's in jail now and I think it's because of my brother he's still there he's part of me you know he's my foreign [Music] yeah hi this is marjor hamidi I'm from Afghanistan I was born in Iran since when I arrived to Kabul in 2020 I joined the National technology team of Afghanistan and after fall of Kabul I came to Paris by the help of government of France and now I'm training with the French team and I'm preparing for the Olympic Games I wanted to go with my team with my coach with you know a team from a country but I couldn't and when I received visa from Paris and when I was in the flight I said Paris is the city of Olympics so maybe something happened I don't know but I was happy that I'm going to the city is city of Olympic and the Olympic Games will be here and I live alone after when I left after one month Taliban they took my brother to jail and he's still in jail now it's almost one year that he is not free he's in the jail of Taliban and I don't know what will happen to him I don't know African but for me they're not Afghan team they are good tolerant because they are training with the and they have the support of Taliban so I don't accept them and I never want to represent them I want to represent Afghan women and I'm African when I'm there it means I'm representing Afghan women and the people of Afghanistan who are against Taliban not all of them I'm I talk very directly and I'm different than many girls and they don't like me because I don't wear hijab for example and they said oh you're not Afghan you're not representing us I said I'm not representing you I represent the people who accept me like who I am for example and when I will be even if I be in the Olympics I know it will be more stressful and I will be so sad because on that time you will understand more what you lose what you last from your life and you're a refugee because everyone in the Olympic Games all the team they will come with the flag of the country team coach you know everything from their own country and I will be a refugee there you know it's complicated I think when we are in fight we are just in the same cat the category 57 57 but we are not in the same life because for what happened to me it's not easy to continue because I see many athletes they don't have any problem but they stop Taekwondo because something for me is nothing you know but for them and I understand that oh we are really different